Genesis - The Waiting Room

Genesis started life as a progressive rock band, in the manner of Yes and King Crimson, before a series of membership changes brought about a transformation in their sound, into one of the most successful pop/rock bands of the 1980s and 1990s. In addition, the group has provided a launching pad for the superstardom of members Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins, and star solo careers for members Tony Banks, Michael Rutherford, and Steve Hackett. Their roots go back to 1965 and a pair of rival groups, the Garden Wall and the Anon, formed by students at the Charterhouse School in Godalming, Surrey. They merged, with the result that 15-year-olds Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, and Michael Rutherford joined with 14-year-old Anthony Phillips, calling themselves the New Anon and recording a six-song demo featuring songs primarily written by Rutherford and Phillips.

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[Progrose]

@hambone9444 Gabriel wrote 90% of the lyrics, thats not the full song!! Music+Lyric =SONG

Every member of the band contributed with the music. Also Banks and Rutherford helped with some lyrics, for example, The Lamia. Don't get me wrong, Peter was without doubt the best singer of Genesis, but please do not discount the other band members and their writing contributions.

[Akron162]

i love the durms at the end.

[littlecave]

I listen to the whole song just to get to 3:14 and from then on it's one of the best things in music ever.

[MultiDannyboy89]

Very cool song.

[greeboidable]

@curvalecce I don't remember that on the sleeve notes!

[SinCaraWweSmackdown]

scary song

[RuaraidhM]

Sounds like they gave a guy 20 tablets of MDMA, a litre of vodka and sent him stumbling into a wind-chime store.

[curvalecce]

In the context of the 'story', this music is describing the process of dying, which means the long scary bit, the cannon firing, and then the sort of triumphant finale has a (kind of) narrative coherence. Certainly the body's defence against danger and death is terror, and the sparkling music after the cannon firing might show Rael's freedom now his physical body is abandoned.

Or not.

[SpurioCarvilio]

jam*

[SpurioCarvilio]

Mamma che jamm!! Musica spettacolare

[WingNutLCC]

so true a psychedelic edge of genesis!

[MrSeminole77]

this is the difference between a song and a composition